Management Practices in High-Tech Environments (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781599045641)

The concept of innovation management and learning organizations concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in modern society. However, there is often a paradox between managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on one hand, knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued members of organizations while, on the other, they are being manipulated and "engineered"-commonly driven to burn-out, and deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new organizational phenomena that, up to now, have been insufficiently analyzed and described. Management Practices in High-Tech Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting cutting-edge research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.

Author: Dariusz Jemielniak
ISBN-10: 1599045648
ISBN-13: 9781599045641
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2008
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 11.12h x 8.62w x 1.26d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2007 pg. 50